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Today went out to take my mint 360 to the supermarket and some idiotic **** has creased my drivers door and taken paint off the rear quarter. Wing mirror was bent backbut fortunately not damaged. I am properly pissed off.
Whenever I get a car someone screws it up. I haven't bent a car myself since 1996 - but other drivers are always hitting me when parked
I guess it could have been much worse. I'll just have to get it fixed... And get a couple of other mperfections sorted while I'm at it!
Don't why I'm telling you this - rant over
'85 360GLT Mk2 3 Door B19E - SOLD
'94 L400 Mitsubishi Delica LWB
If you know that men who done it....you heve to do one thing...
Sorry for my english... I'm not good at it
B172K Power
340 ST27584 B14.3E from 15.VI.2004 to 01.II.2005
Sold
340 ST15145 B172K from 10.II.2005 to 18.02.2006
Damaged
340 ST34056 B172K from 10.III.2005
Is the rear quarter dented mate as it looks like that would cut out in the pic, shame bout the door though. Although if the scratches havent gone through the paint a mobile dent service should be able to sort it out!!
Cheers Adam
That must be gutting, I'd be mad. Whenever I park in a carpark I always park at the far end where it's quiet, preferably with no cars beside if possible, or otherwise good looking cars. If the car has paint chips on the edjes of teh doors, I'd never park there...
Things like that really annoy me, unlucky mate. If I was you, I'd get down the supermarket ASAP and demand to see the CCTV footage of the car park. You might get a registration number and the persue the spineless muppet who caused the damage and didn't even leave any details. Why should you have to pay to put the damage right that they've caused?
I hate parking in car parks, everyone assumes it's an old car, so why should anyone care about it, and people don't seem to worry about hitting doors together, or bumping into things. I always try to park in the corners, or next to the msot expensive looking, most well looked after cars, with the most possibility of it only having a driver and no passengers and park on the passenger side! It's not always possible, but it helps.
I was actually sat in my car once and somone swung a car door open onto it not once but twice, after one nasty glare, one angry, high revved move into another space and some serious ranting, they seemed quite apologetic! But as I pointed out, that wasn't going to remove the dent in my door that they carelessly put there, after first denying it.
Good luck mate, and I would seriously look into trying to get hold of the CCTV footage...... you never know, if you get hold of that, and present it to the Police, they can track the owner, as it is an offence, causing damage and leaving the scene, though as it was in a private car park they may not want to do anything, but they should.
My parents had something similar happen in a car park, the bloke was seen by several witnesses dragging the bull bar down the side of the car until it got stuck, he ahd to shunt around to become unattached, then sheepishly left without stopping. When written to he ignored the letters, then denied even being there, despite us knowing him and having seen him, along with many others! There really are some spineless people in existence, not willing to admit to any damage they've caused. It has taken approximately 8 months to sort it out, but it was worth it in the end, as why should they have to fork out for the repairs!?
Pete
G reg 360 GLT, G reg 340 GL Variomatic, plus many more..........
I don't know how people can be so careless. I remember when I was unloading shopping into the boot, and I heard the trolly roll. I turned and it was heading straight towards a new VW that was only a few yards away. I've never moved so quickly to catch a trolly, and that really had me worryed for a minute.
Oh, I thought you were at the supermarket, not on your way! Doh! Well, one thing worth checking is for paint on your neighbours bumpers etc! It's amazing how even though they are guilty, and deny it, that there is paint on their bumper, and in the case of my parents, the person's vehicle had our cars paint on it's bumper and bull bar, and he said he wasn't there, and the corresponding rust colour from his car, on our car......... hmmm......really!?!? It's worth checking mate, good luck!
Pete
G reg 360 GLT, G reg 340 GL Variomatic, plus many more..........
